Comment by albedoa
Are you defining amateurs as people who are not your coworkers? It can still be an amateur mistake.
Are you defining amateurs as people who are not your coworkers? It can still be an amateur mistake.
For some added pedantry: aren't all the mistakes that a professional might make, also ones an amateur would make?
In fact, it seems like an amateur is likely to run into all mistakes more often, thereby making all mistakes amateur mistakes; unless there some class of mistake that amateurs are better at avoiding?
Coworker implies paid work, and therefore they are not amateurs. They very well may make the same mistakes, but those mistakes would be professional mistakes.